Bryan Cranston Recreates ‘The Shining’ In Bizarre Super Bowl Ad – 92moose.fm

Stanley Kubrick was anoted perfectionist. No detail was left to chance or accident. He spent years honing each project. He would shoot hundreds of takes of seemingly simple shots. His fans scrutinize his films like they are religious texts.

But do you think he liked Mountain Dew?

That is what I am left wondering after this very strange and frankly quitetroubling new commercial for the Dew, which is set to air during this years Super Bowl. It stars Bryan Cranston and Tracee Ellis Ross in an impressively accurate recreation of KubricksThe Shining. There was Mountain Dew Zero all over the place in the original film too, right?

Cranston plays the Jack Nicholson role; Ross is Shelley Duvall. I wont spoil the ending for you, but its maybe the most disturbing thing Ive ever seen.

And you thought the actualShiningwas scary.

This ad is part of an entire trend toward weirdly accurate recreations ofThe Shining in recent years. Steven SpielbergsReady Player One featured an entire sequence set in the Overlook Hotel from the film, and last fall, Stephen Kings own adaptation ofThe Shining, was adapted into its own movie,Doctor Sleep, which culminated in Ewan McGregors grown-up Danny Torrance returning to the Overlook to confront his literal demons while helping a young woman with psychic powers of her own. (He doesnt find any Mountain Dew there, sadly.)

The concept here is this new Mountain Dew Zero beverage is as good as the original, maybe even better so you take an original film likeThe Shining and cheekily remake it. To their credit, I will not be able to get the image of that giant wave of Mountain Dew pouring out of the Overlook elevator for a long time. You can watch the Super Bowl on February 2, 2020.

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